Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones -
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
Mackenzie Davis -
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld -
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
Gary Johnson -
My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
Sabrina Carpenter -
There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
Warren Ellis -
When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
Zooey Deschanel -
The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
JJ Feild
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang -
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor -
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
Paul Auster -
Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted 'in the heart of a dying star,' but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say.
Kyle Hill -
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin